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Second International Seville Seminar on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA): Impacts on policy and decision making 28th- 29th September 2006 Foresight within ERA-NETs: Experiences from the Preparation of an International Research Programme Ville Brummer* , Totti Könnölä** and Ahti Salo* *Helsinki University of Technology ** Technical Research Centre of Finland

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Second International Seville Seminar on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA): Impacts on policy and decision making 28th- 29th September 2006. Foresight within ERA-NETs: Experiences from the Preparation of an International Research Programme. Ville Brummer* , Totti Könnölä** and Ahti Salo*. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Second International Seville Seminar on Future-Oriented Technology

Analysis (FTA): Impacts on policy and decision making

28th- 29th September 2006

Second International Seville Seminar on Future-Oriented Technology

Analysis (FTA): Impacts on policy and decision making

28th- 29th September 2006Foresight within ERA-NETs: Experiences from the Preparation of an

International Research Programme

Ville Brummer*, Totti Könnölä** and Ahti Salo**Helsinki University of Technology

** Technical Research Centre of Finland

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ERA-NETs

ERA-NET Scheme

• An innovation policy tool in the EU– Funding from FP6 (budget approx. 160 M€ in 2002 - 2006)

• Coordination and cooperation among national and regional research programmes

– New innovations, efficient use of resources, risk spreading

• Focus on selected sciences and/or technologies– Approx. 75 ERA-NETs to-date – Transportation, climate change, hydrogen, cancer, etc.

• Diverse practices– From 10 to 50 partners– Budgets from 100 k€ to 100 M€ – Mode of operations ranges from

1. weak coordination of national programmes to 2. common pot of resources for a joint RTD programme

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WoodWisdom-Net

Background

•Timeline– Established in 2004– Calls for proposals in 2007 - research will start in 2008

•18 partners (ministries and national funding agencies)– Austria, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, UK

•Joint Research Programme– Research projects to be funded by WW-Net partners– Partners allocate funds to researchers in their countries – Funding decisions are taken jointly– Cross-national research projects

•Five workpackages (WPs)– WP2 strategic activities: WP 2.4 and 2.5 Collaborative Shaping of Research Agendas in WoodWisdom-Net

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Collaborative Shaping of Research Agendas

Consultation process

•Challenges– New instrument → No established approaches – A broad range of issues to be covered

•Forestry, wood products, paper industry, etc.•Research, industrial and societal perspectives

– Different partners (funding organizations)•Different management cultures•Different national interests •Different focus areas

•Systematic process to engage key stakeholders - Well-defined roles and responsibilities - Taxonomy for research issues- Multiple methods (internet surveys, multicriteria analysis,

participatory workshops)- Over 400 participants from eight different countries

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Process Description

Participants

•Representatives from funding organizations– One per each organization

•National coordinators– One per each country (i.e. Austria, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, UK)

•Researchers – Approx. 200 researchers

•Industrial leaders – Approx. 50 industry representatives

•The project team – Project manager plus research group at TKK (the authors)

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Process Description

Taxonomy

RESEARCH AREA 1 Knowledge-based products – new value- added e.g. for construction, interior design, information, packaging and health-care purposes Sub-area 1.1 Wood-based biopolymers to composites Sub-area 1.2 Eco-friendly chemicals and polymers Sub-area 1.3 Creating new functionalities or improved to materials/products Sub-area 1.4 Combining fibres with other materials Sub-area 1.5 Creating new innovative wood and fibre structures for different end-uses RESEARCH AREA 2 Biorefinery concept for efficient utilization of wood raw material Sub-area 2.1 Modification and processing of wood raw material into innovative, eco-efficient products Sub-area 2.2 Effective utilization of side streams Sub-area 2.3 Development of recyclability characteristics Sub-area 2.4 Advanced production of bioenergy Sub-area 2.5 Utilization of enabling technologies to improve productivity and reduce capital costs RESEARCH AREA 3 Sustainable, renewable raw material production Sub-area 3.1 Techniques for measurement and characterization of the properties of wood and fibres Sub-area 3.2 Tree breeding using traditional techniques or forest biotechnology Sub-area 3.3 Factors affecting wood and fibre properties Sub-area 3.4 Silvicultural methods, procurement and harvesting operations Sub-area 3.5 Optimizing the raw material supply chain for specific products or demands RESEARCH AREA 4 Socio-economic aspects related to scientific innovations of wood-based materials Sub-area 4.1 Combining social and natural/engineering sciences Sub-area 4.2 Values and perception Sub-area 4.3 New business models

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Process description

Process Design

Task Participants Schedule

1. Solicitation of research issues Researchers Mid-July – Mid-October ‘05

2. Assessment of research issues Researchers December ’05 - Mid-January ‘06

3. Assessment of research issues Industrial leaders Three last weeks of January ‘06

4. Initial screening of research issues

Project team January - February ’06

5. Three one-day workshops for Researchers and Industrial leaders

10-12 Researchers and Industrial leaders / workshop

Mid-February, ‘06

6. A one-day workshop for funding organizations

Representatives from funding organizations End of March, ‘06

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Process description

Tasks 1 – 3: Web-activities

•Task 1 :–Timetable: Mid-July – Mid-October 2005–Participants: ~ 200 Researchers–Researchers submitted research issues–Output: 317 Research issues

•Task 2–Timetable: December 2005 – Mid-January 2006–Participants: ~ 200 Researchers–Researchers assessed proposed research issues

•Task 3–Timetable: January 2006–Participants: ~ 50 Industrial leaders –Industrial leaders assessed research issues

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Process description

Task 1 Exapmle

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Process description

Task 4 Initial screening of research issues

•Timetable–January – February 2006

•Participants–The project team

•Task–Multi-criteria analyses with RPM-methodology based on the assessments (http://www.rpm.tkk.fi)

•Output–Key evaluation statistics–Shortlists of most promising issues

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Process descriptionTask 5 Workshops for researchers and funding organisations•Three one day workshops in February 2006

New value added products and production, Wood products and Forestry

•Participant– One researcher and one Industrial leader from each participating country / workshop

•Issues, assessments and analysis on each research sub-area allocated to each workshop by topic

–Discussion of solicited issues–Evaluation of sub-areas with regards to i) suitability for WW-Net and ii) tentative proposition of distribution of funding–Synthesis of the results i) at the international level and ii) on each country

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Process description

Task 6 Workshop for funding organisations

•Timetable–March 2006

•Participants–Representatives from funding organisations

•One-day workshop –Results from previous tasks supported discussions–Funding organisations estimated i) how much and ii) which sub-areas they would be willing to fund–Three working groups of WW-Net partners created based on these answers Specification of Calls-for-Proposals

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Conclusions

•Benefits to stakeholders–Researchers: Learning from a systematic process –Industry: Influence through comments on prospective research –Funding organizations: Improved understanding of research issues that are relevant to researchers and industrialists Makes it easier to commit funds Supporst the development of Calls-for-Proposals

•Key process considerations–How to balance top-down and bottom-up prioritisation?–At what stage to build a taxonomy of research issues? –How to foster new networks of collaboration?

•Extensive analyses distributed among WW-Net members•Potentially useful in other ERA-NETs, too